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Google Instant Announced
GCPSoft writes with this quote from a Google announcement:
"Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a tenth of the time!) to glance at another part of the page. This means that you can scan a results page while you type."
P.S.
I also hate their new Image search page which, instead of just displaying image, runs some CPU intensive script that expands/shrinks images as you pass over them. What used to be a fast, pleasant browse is now like walking through molasses. It's so annoying that I'm trying to figure out how to turn if off and go back to the "old" plain images without any kind of Java enhancement.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
>>>some college kid
If you want to pay to upgrade me to a $50/month connection because webmasters like to stream megabytes of crap, instead of optimizing pages to fit in a few kilobytes... feel free to do so. What's that? You can't afford it? Well guess what. Neither can I.
It is unacceptable for webmasters to design sites that don't work properly on 1 megabit/s or less connections.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Oh and another thing. I've been out of work for almost two years now (minus an all-too-brief 3 month contract as a temp engineer). I think I have a right to be miserable Mr. AC.
The world IS miserable in case you haven't noticed. Like those idiots who are saying, "If the Ground Zero Mosque is built, let's bomb it." I will not silence my opinion about that, or Google, or anything else just because you don't like it. So frak off Anonymous Coward.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
>>>Second, it automatically shuts off on low bandwidth accounts.
Interesting. It didn't shut off on my DSL - I guess that's not considered low bandwidth? Neither did it shutoff on Dialup, probably because I have web accelerator (compression) turned on, and Netscape ISP's caching appears to be high bandwidth.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
If we all pray hard enough maybe, just maybe, commodore64_love will get hit by a bus or some other lucky fatal accident and rid us all of his miserable presence.
Unfortunately it wouldn't help anyone fix their spelling mistakes.
Nor would it help anyone fix his or her grammatical mistakes!
But access to the web is a right, according to recent papers published by the Democrat leaders in Congress (and echoed by Øbama in his speeches). ----- Okay even I think that was a smart-assed response... but so was the college kid's comments about Pentium 3 and small screens. I'm reflecting back what you're throwing at me. (Like that one scene in Zelda OOT where Link fights the witches with a mirror shield.)
I'm not asking web-developers to stop progress. I'm asking them to stop streaming megabytes of data, when the same job could be done with just a few kilobytes. Like KolibriOS which can run off a single floppy, or Puppy Linux that only needs 32 megabytes of memory. (i.e. Optimize your code, images, etc to use as little internet space as possible.)
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall